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A Snacky Lunch – It’s What’s On the Menu

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A snacky lunch is easy. It’s self-serve. It’s a great healthy lunch idea for kids.

This is one of my go-to meals around here. It’s fast. It’s easy. It’s highly portable. And the kids love it.

Plus, since it’s SO much like a commercial “punchable”, I can easily sway them from that section of the grocery store without a fuss. If I throw in a small sweet and some juice, the kids are extra jazzed.

This isn’t a fancy bento box. There are no sandwiches cut into works of art. It’s just simple, fun, yummy food that my kids love. Heck, my husband and I do, too.

This is often what I turn to for Sunday lunch or dinner since it’s so easy and quick to prep.

The Snacky Lunch

A Snacky Lunch contains any of the following:

crackers or sliced baguette

cheese slices or sticks, and fancier cheeses if we have them

sliced turkey, ham, or salami – either rolled or cut into cracker-sized pieces

With all the Kraft/Nabisco printable coupons floating around last month, we have a huge stockpile of free or almost-free Ritz and Wheat Thins. Our favorite, however, is Peanut Butter crackers with apple slices or raisins. It's like a staple in our house, and saves money on bread, too. Son likes to dip his in hummus. I don't think he knows it's a vegetable product! LOL.

Love those snacky lunches! Have you seen those pictures where moms put each item into a cup of a muffin tin? I think that's pretty brilliant, too (assuming you can scrounge up enough muffin tins for each child!)

I do this sometimes, too. I used to have some of the plastic lunchables containers that I re-used to put the crackers, cheese, etc. in there. My son always thought it was pretty cool to eat it out of the lunchable container & I felt good that I was re-using it a couple times before recycling it.

We do these, too. My son calls it a "snack lunch" and would eat it every day if I'd let him! We purchase turkey ham at ALDI and cut it into cubes, then freeze. For a snack lunch, we chisel off a chunk with a butter knife, pop it in the microwave for 1 minute and serve!

Pepperoni also works well, with or without mini-pitas for making individual pizzas.

I do this all the time with my daughter, Maddie (age 4). She loves it and calls it her extra-special homemade lunchable. So cute! Sometimes we use some small cookie cutters to make shapes in the lunchmeat and cheese. Great ideas on your blog! Thanks!

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